Another Dimension

Track 7 from the album 'Zijn'

About the album:
I have continued to work with A=432Hz tuning, exploring the possibilities of sustained sounds. I have been working towards an even more static atmosphere than on my previous albums.

I'm very interested in the role of time in this kind of music. The sounds have a different effect and meaning depending on how long they last. To me, the music becomes a vehicle to accomplish a meditative state.

released November 15, 2021

Instruments used on this album: Acoustic guitar, Acoustic guitar with ebow, Sustainer guitar, Soma Lyra 8 synth.
Recording, Production, Photography and Design: Simon van Weelden
© Geluidenfabriek, 2021

Inkeer

Fay(tr)/fault; A fault is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. Faults allow the blocks to move relative to each other. This movement may occur rapidly, in the form of an earthquake - or may occur slowly, in the form of creep. Most faults produce repeated displacements over geologic time.
The aim of this piece is mainly create polyphonic texture with a solo instrument. The main material has explored in the piece with it’s inharmonicity and the textural and rhythmical aspect of it’s granular quality.

performed by Gregory Chalier (2022)

fay, for amplified solo bass flute (2022)

for 7 violas

performed by Ensemble IPSE, cond. Carl Bettendorf 


Artwork: Samantha Keely Jones

Shedding (2022)

Puisqu’on se tient toujours en équilibre, en amazone entre 2 siècles ou 2 catastrophes, on pourrait, pour un instant, pour un instant seulement, s'offrir encore le temps de s'offrir des détours. Se lever en riant dans un bruit de tempête, comme des soleils crachés,  dans les sons déchirés d'un accord de néons rances, jusqu'à oublier les rêves qui nous hantent.

En danseuse, plutôt que le tram 33, plutôt que ces métros remplis de noyés, bien sûr que le temps va trop vite, mais choisir le droit de rêver encore dans un monde qui sommeille par manque d'imprudence. Tracer un chemin et forcer le destin à chaque carrefour.
Voici donc quelques rires, quelques leurres et vérités qui ne servent à rien. Des mots insensés que tu comprendras. C'est beaucoup moins dansant mais tout aussi charmant.
Qui peut nous dire quand ca finit quand ca commence, il est midi tous les quarts d'heure...
Avec des apparitions de Jacques Brel.
Ecoute au casque recommandée • Enregistrements en binaural

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Since we keep balancing, riding side-saddle between 2 centuries or 2 disasters, we could, for a moment, for a moment only, still afford the time to take detours.
Getting up laughing in a stormy noise, like spitting suns, in the torn sounds of a chord of eons, until forgetting the dreams that haunt us.
As a dancer, rather than the 33 tram, rather than these subways filled with drowned people, of course time goes by too fast, but choosing the right to still dream in a world that slumbers through lack of imprudence. Forging a path and forcing destiny at every crossroads.
So here are some laughs, some lures and truths that are useless. Nonsense words that you will understand. It's much less danceable but just as charming.
Who can tell us when it ends when it starts, it's noon every quarter of an hour...
With appearances by Jacques Brel.
Listening with headphones recommended • Binaural recordings

CoMute

CoMute #8: Bicycle avec Jacques Brel

Esmeralda (For Quasimodo)

premiered by and composed for Madison Greenstone and Alexandra Smith.

No additional processing - only acoustic clarinet and metal sheet.

no dogs in space (2022) bass clarinet and metal sheet with transducer

In a summer night in Morvan, a duet of two tawny owls with great green bush crickets and wood crickets.

Tawny owls duet in summer - recorded in Morvan (France) w/ Gregoire Chauvot

Grain | Stream
for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists & electronics

Première:
October 22nd, 2023 - Donaueschinger Musiktage 

Performers:
Yarn/Wire
Russell Greenberg, Sae Hashimoto (Percussion)
Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer (Klavier)

The idea of stream recalled in the title and central in the piece has been inspired by Anselm Kiefer’s painting Alchemie consists of two canvases showing a dry desert-like landscape connected by a balance. A rainfall of salt and sunflower seeds falling down from the balance’s dishes. 
That’s a strong symbol of a possible new life re-growing from the desert landscape which is directly connected with the art of alchemy transforming lead into gold.


On the other hand streams of grains (especially salt) are traditionally associated with purification rituals of mind and spirit.
Driven by the strong symbolic meaning of this canvas and the message of hope that it conveys to me, I imagined a sound-world made of grains and streams which arise from silence and saturate space and time until leading the perception to an in-between dimension where temporal references are loosen.

Grain I Stream

The close action of a pair of Ural Owls was so fascinating that I failed to notice the display of northern lights. 3.03.2024, Saueaugu, Estonia.
The noise from Tallinn-Tartu high traffic motorway.

Ural Owls and Northern Lights

Chorus of endemic treefrogs of Taiwan :
莫氏樹蛙 Rhacophorus moltrechti Boulenger, 1908.
台北樹蛙 Rhacophorus taipeianus Liang & Wang, 1978.

Recorded near Jiaping Camp, Yilan County, Taiwan.
13.04.2024 20:40
Sony PCM-D100 + Primo EM272

240413 treefrog chorus, Jiaping, Yilan, Taiwan

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